On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:11 AM, practikal mind <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do I find out the range of pageids that are currently in use in > wikipedia? > I don't know of any straightforward way to do this via the API. But if you get an account on Tool Labs,[1] it's a simple SQL query: SELECT MIN(page_id), MAX(page_id) FROM page. [1]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ > Do pageids always remain constant? > If a page is deleted and then undeleted, the page id might change. > Can a certain pageid cease to exist? > If the page is deleted, yes. Special:MergeHistory will probably eliminate one of the involved page ids too. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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